Skip to main content

A Small Change - October 2009

Occasionally, Blogger makes small changes to their code, which we may not see immediately. This, as in a previous example, I will call a snake.
If it was a snake, it would have bitten you.
This is a very small snake, but one that we've been asking for, for a while.

I just published my previous post, Manage The Blogs That You Follow, Carefully, and I was casually looking at the display Your blog post published successfully!.

What is that odd symbol next to the caption View Post? For that matter, what is View Post?

OMG, that's now "View Post", instead of "View Blog"!

Surprise!



No reloading the entire main page, after publishing a new post. And no reloading the main page, then having to search, for an edited post. Just click on "View Post". Bravo, Blogger. Another change made in silence. And, a significant improvement enabling my Progressive Publishing strategy.

A second change was noted today, but it's one that won't be nearly as popular as this one.

>> Top

Comments

Anonymous said…
There has always been a link to "view in a new window", though I don't remember the exact wording. It looks like they replaced the text link with an icon link. Nice alteration.
Nitecruzr said…
No, Ian,

It used to be "View Blog" and "View Blog in new window".

There's a significant difference between "View Blog" and "View Blog in new window", and "View Post" / "View Post in new window".
1. Not having to load the entire main page, to view a new post.
2. Not having to load the main page, and hunt for, an edited older post.

This is a major change for someone like me, who does progressive publishing.
Anonymous said…
Ah, ok, that's what I remember seeing. Thanks for the clarification.

Popular posts from this blog

Adding A Link To Your Blog Post

Occasionally, you see a very odd, cryptic complaint I just added a link in my blog, but the link vanished! No, it wasn't your imagination.

Embedded Comments And Main Page View

The option to display comments, embedded below the post, was made a blog option relatively recently. This was a long requested feature - and many bloggers added it to their blogs, as soon as the option was presented to us. Some blog owners like this feature so much, that they request it to be visible when the blog is opened, in main page view. I would like all comments, and the comment form, to be shown underneath the relevant post, automatically, for everyone to read without clicking on the number of comments link. And this is not how embedded comments work.

What's The URL Of My Blog?

We see the plea for help, periodically I need the URL of my blog, so I can give it to my friends. Help! Who's buried in Grant's Tomb, after all? No Chuck, be polite. OK, OK. The title of this blog is "The Real Blogger Status", and the title of this post is "What's The URL Of My Blog?".